Convert Subtask to Task, not project.

[Shandra_Plourde]

I made a subtask under a task thinking it was part of that task. Turns out, my subtask is more work and bigger than the task it is under, but not big enough to be a project. It has a lot of notes in it I can’t afford to lose.

[Andrea_Mayer]

Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Shandra_Plourde!

You can change a subtask to a task following these steps:

Convert Subtask to Task (NEW QUESTION)

Not a video, but did you try this which seemed to work for others: Larry

Convert Subtask to Task (NEW QUESTION)

Thanks a million for documenting this. Helped me finally succeed after a good 20 mins of trying to work this out. In doing so, I also found a workaround for your purgatory issue… Click and drag the subtask from the parent task into whatever section you want it to become a task in. (When you’ve done this, it appears both in the section and as a subtask under the original parent task.) Click and drag the subtask from the parent task a second time. This time, drop it over in the left-hand panel y…

I hope that helps

[Simon_McLoughlin1]

We really need an option to do this while inside the board view, the options require switching to list view and then finding the task again. Theres already a “Convert to” menu under the 3 dot button when inside the board view. But it only gives you the option to convert it to another subtask, or to a project. Simply adding a third option to convert to task in the current project is what is needed.

Can you please push this up to someone to try get this added soon? This has been a frequent complaint now for years, and its making using the board view very frustrating and cumbersome